Lake Michigan, a series of 19 lyric poems, imagines a prison camp located on the beaches of Chicago that is privatized, racially segregated, and overrun by a brutal police force. Thinking about the ways in which economic policy, racism...
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Author: Borzutzky, DanielSummary: - Author: Joseph, EveSummary:
WINNER, 2019 GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE
The poems in this collection reach for something other than truth, the marvelous. Leaves fall out of coat sleeves, Gandhi swims in Burrard Inlet. The poems are like empty coats from which the...
- Author: Heidbreder, RobertSummary:
Kids still not up? Still sound asleep? Snoozing rug-bugs in a heap. Time to do whatever it takes. Read aloud from SHAKE-AWAKES! Slimy, stinky, stuffed with dread- these poems will scare kids out of bed! But, hey, kids, there are poems...
- Author: Coburn, Davin ; Bakos, NadaSummary:
Filled with on-the-ground insights and poignant personal anecdotes, this memoir shows us the great personal sacrifice that comes with intelligence work. This is Nada's story, but it is also an intimate chronicle of how a group of...
- Author: Dresner, AnnaSummary:
Kids will love amazing their friends with these twelve magic tricks (well, it's really a baker's dozen!) that use items found around the house. Performing tricks for family and friends will also help polish their presentation...
- Author: Johnson, AbbySummary:
When Abby Johnson, director of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Texas, walked across the road in October 2009 to join the Coalition for Life, she made national headlines. In "Unplanned," she tells her story from both sides of the abortion...
- Author: Difranco, AniSummary:
A memoir by the celebrated singer-songwriter and social activist Ani DiFranco In her new memoir, No Walls and the Recurring Dream, Ani DiFranco recounts her early life from a place of hard-won wisdom, combining personal expression, the...
- Author: Vermette, KatherenaSummary:
"A young girl becomes lost in the woods after wandering too far away from her mother. Scared because she is lost, she encounters a large wolf who reminds her of her own ability to survive and find her mother again."
- Author: Osler, MirabelSummary:
"Osler's plea is not so gentle; rather, its opinionated (though never dismissive), bell-clear, wickedly humorous, brilliant--a call for cultivated anarchy in the garden that turns an oxymoron into a sensuous, sensible act. ``...
- Author: Robertson, JoanneSummary:
"This is the story of a determined Ojibwe Grandmother (Nokomis) Josephine Mandamin and her great love for Nibi (Water). Nokomis walks to raise awareness of our need to protect Nibi for future generations, and for all life on the...
- Author: McKay, AmiSummary:
"Set in Victorian New York in the year 1871, as a crowded, sweltering summer of riots and poverty comes to a close, 12-year-old Moth's journey is just beginning. Sold away by her mother, Moth becomes a pickpocket on the...
- Author: Van Camp, Richard ; Gray Smith, Monique ; Gear, AlisonSummary:
"From award-winning authors Richard Van Camp and Monique Gray Smith come two honest and memorable middle-grade novellas on residential schools and reconciliation. The novellas will be bound together in a 'flip-book' format, which offers...
- Author: Dickens, CharlesSummary:
Bleak House follows the fortunes and relationships of three characters whose fates are tied to the obscure inheritance case of Jarndyce v. Jarndyce, which is tied up in endless litigation. While many deserving and undeserving claim the...
- Author: Briggle, AdamSummary:
From the front lines of the fracking debate, a "field philosopher" explores one of our most divisive technologies. When philosophy professor Adam Briggle moved to Denton, Texas, he had never heard of fracking. Only five years...
- Author: Powers, PaulSummary:
When it comes to getting a job, the smallest mistake can trip you up. For thirty years Dr. Paul Powers has asked thousands of successful job hunters a few basic but important questions:What do you wish someone had told you when you...
- Author: Kaplan, Robert StevenSummary:
Building a fulfilling life and career can be a daunting challenge. Too often we charge down a path leading to "success" as defined by others and are left feeling dissatisfied. We all have unique skills and qualities, but it...
- Author: Murphy, ShawnSummary:
AAn inspiring new take on workplace environment and crafting improved employee engagementWhen it comes to work these days, we're expected to do more with less--but is this nose-to-the-grindstone philosophy the best way to run a...
- Author: Bernoff, JoshSummary:
Professional business writer Josh Bernoff presents the first comprehensive guide to writing for today's world: a noisy environment where everyone reads on a screen. In this practical and witty little book, you'll learn to...
- Author: Pickens, BethSummary:
As a teenager visiting the Andy Warhol Museum, Beth Pickens realized the importance of making art. As an adult, she has worked as a consultant empowering artists. In this intimate yet practical book, Pickens helps artists build a...
- Author: Farland, DavidSummary:
Gaborn, now the Earth King, has lost his powers but still leads his people. He must contend with the threat of the inhuman Reavers, whose myriads Gaborn must now pursue across the nation. Gaborn's fate is to follow, even into the...
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